Changing Seasons for the Country Nurse is going on tour with Rachel's Random Resources, if you wish to participate please contact me on rachel@rachelsrandomresources.com with your name, blog name, preferred post type and availability.
Changing Seasons for the Country Nurse by Kate Eastham
Genre: Historical Saga
Tour Dates: 22nd - 28th August 2025
Publication Date: 22nd August 2025
Publisher: Boldwood Books
Standalone Second Book in the Diary of a Country Nurse series
Formats available: Netgalley Widget
Types of post available: Review Only
In the quiet Lancashire countryside of 1936, city-trained nurse Lara Flynn must contend with far more than muddy lanes and boisterous farm dogs. Still recovering from a past trauma and an ill-fated love affair, she’s determined to prove herself as a capable district nurse and midwife to a community that doesn’t easily welcome outsiders.
As autumn sets in, Lara becomes a trusted presence at Ingleside Surgery - soothing frightened patients, forming a close bond with her spirited colleague Marion and earning the grudging respect of the erratic but brilliant senior doctor. But behind the laughter and team spirit, shadows loom. There’s loss, secrets buried deep in the hearts of her new friends and a face from her past that threatens everything Lara's tried to leave behind.
When tragedy strikes a patient - a younger mother with four small children - Lara’s personal strength is tested like never before. Can she dig deep to find hope and healing, not just for those she cares for, but also for herself?
Changing Seasons for the Country Nurse describes the quiet heroism of a woman making a difference, one visit at a time. It's the perfect read for fans of Call the Midwife and All Creatures Great and Small as well as Donna Douglas and Jean Fullerton.
About Kate Eastham
Kate Eastham trained as a nurse in the late 1970s and enjoyed a long career before a change in circumstance meant that she needed to be a full time carer for her partner. Determined to make the most of this new role ‘working from home’ she cleared a space at the kitchen table for a pile of books and a writing pad and started to make notes on the history of nursing. Inspired by the achievements of Florence Nightingale and Mary Seacole during the Crimean War she was also captured by the sheer grit and determination of other 'ordinary women' whose voices from the past are seldom heard. An idea for a novel was born and her first book, ‘Miss Nightingale’s Nurses’, was published by Penguin in 2018, closely followed by three more in the series.
Having thought that she would never find anything to replace the work in nursing that she loved, she is now equally immersed in her writing, drawing on years of experience and the stories told by so many patients. With her passion for history, Kate aims to continue making visible the lives of ordinary yet extraordinary women from the past.
She is currently writing for Boldwood Books and the first in her brand new Country Nurse series will be published in March 2025.
Follow Kate Eastham
Twitter: @eastham_kate
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Blog Tour Schedule
Maximum 3 stops per day. Confirmed blogs will appear here.
22nd August
sudeshnablogs
Clyde's Corner
karen_loves_reading
23rd August
readwithjackalope
24th August
Books, Life and Everything
25th August
Kat's Book Cave
26th August
@Leona.OMahony
Bookish Jottings
27th August
Leanne bookstagram
28th August
Nadine Sargent